September, 26: The Music 4.5 Smart Radio seminar

September, 26: The Music 4.5 Smart Radio seminar

2Pears team has announced that on September, 26 the Music 4.5 Smart Radio seminar will take place in the offices of Lewis Silkin on Chancery Lane (London).

It's a seminar focused on exploring the business models for interactive and streaming music platforms, examining radio and online audio: the discussions are set to revolve around audiences, revenues, royalties and sustainable business models.
The event (organized in partnership with Coadec, Lewis Silkin, MediaTainment Finance, MusicTank, TheFetch, TheNextWeb) has been created specifically to bring together radio industry experts, online radio services, broadcasters, licensing and copyright experts, artists, artist managers, music-tech startups, record labels, publishers, entertainment experts and agencies in the UK and Europe, for a productive and informed discussion.

The program includes lectures by David Lewis (founder of consumer behaviour research specialist Audiencenet), Grant Goddard (radio analyst and founder of Totally Radio) and Pete Downton (director of Cloud Services at Imagination Technologies).
Further in-depth discussions will follow including a panel moderated by media industry expert Greg Grimmer, media partner of agency HMDG, and previously MD of Zed Media. The panel will see Linda Smith, executive chair of Radio Advertising Bureau (RAB), Giampiero di Carlo, founder and editor-in-chief of Italy’s leading music website Rockol, Clive Gardiner, previously of We7, and Nikhil Shah, co-founder of Mixcloud, come together to discuss online radio as an advertising medium and the sustainability of the ad-funded model.
The final discussion led by Cliff Fluet, will aim to explore the differences and similarities between radio and audio and where the opportunities lie. Ben Chapman, BBC Audio & Music Interactive, Christian Miccio, CEO of MPme, Samira bin Sharifu of 22tracks, and Andy Harrower, director of Licensing – Broadcast and Online at PRS for Music, will be debating if it is a question of smart radio and dumb audio, algorithmic or human curated music discovery, and the impact of the social sharing behaviour of the "playlist generation".